Visions of a Past Society in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet letter"
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down upon (though slightly less as the story progressed), and treated like a second class citizen. Hawthorne shows his distaste of the Puritan culture by expressing himself through the characters and their actions. Not one person in this novel was truly good, and all the characters sinned. It is impossible to have a perfect society, and Nathaniel Hawthorne explains to us in The Scarlet Letter, that one ruled by the Puritan religion, proves this true.
down upon (though slightly less as the story progressed), and treated like a second class citizen. Hawthorne shows his distaste of the Puritan culture by expressing himself through the characters and their actions. Not one person in this novel was truly good, and all the characters sinned. It is impossible to have a perfect society, and Nathaniel Hawthorne explains to us in The Scarlet Letter, that one ruled by the Puritan religion, proves this true.